• Lecturing
• International collaboration
• Preparation of research proposals
• Development of the international M.Sc. program “Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Technology”

• Thermal management in hybrid electric propulsion systems
• Hydrogen-fueled pressure gain combustion
• Turbomachinery
• Innovative gas turbine cycles

Since 2022 
Research fellow (Habilitand) at the chair aero-engine design
Institute of Transport Technology,
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Chair of Fluid Dynamics, Technical University of Berlin
Dissertation topic: Turbine design development for pressure gain combustion engines

M.Sc., Amirkabir University of Technology
Thesis topic: Part load remedies in multistage axial flow compressors

B.Sc., Amirkabir University of Technology
Thesis topic: Sensitivity analysis of a centrifugal flow compressor using a linearization method

Other academic activities

• Reviewer for different journals and conferences such as Applied Energy, Energy, AIAA Journal, Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Energies, Aerospace, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management, TurboExpo2018-2023, EASN2023
• Session organizer and chair at IGTC2023, ASME TurboExpo2023/24/25/26

Membership

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), European Turbine Network (ETN), Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society (AFMS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

Selected Publications:

▪  M. Asli, P. König, D. Sharma, E. Pontika, J. Huete, K.R. Konda, A. Mathiazhagan, T. Xie, K. Höschler, P. Laskaridis, "Thermal management challenges in hybrid-electric propulsion aircraft", Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 144, 100967, January 2024.

▪ D. Kim, M. Asli, and K. Höschler, “On the Potentials of the Integration of Pressure Gain Combustion with a Hybrid Electric Propulsion System,” Aerospace, vol. 10, no. 8, p. 710, Aug. 2023.

▪ M. Asli, P. Stathopoulos “An optimization methodology for turbines driven by pulsed detonation combustors”, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, November 2022; 144(11): 111004.

▪ R. Klopsch, N. Garan, M. Bohon, E. Bach, M. Asli, and P. Stathopoulos “2D Euler modeling of rotating detonation combustion in preparation for turbomachinery matching”, in AIAA 2022-0836. AIAA SCITECH Forum, 2022.

▪ M. Asli, N. Garan, N. Neumann, P. Stathopoulos “A robust one-dimensional approach for the performance evaluation of turbines driven by pulsed detonation combustion”, Journal of Energy Conversion and Management, 2021,248,114784.

▪ N. Neumann, M. Asli, N. Garan, D. Peitsch, P. Stathopoulos “A fast approach for unsteady compressor performance simulation under boundary condition caused by pressure gain combustion”, Journal of Applied Thermal Engineering, (2021),117223.

▪ M. Asli, P. Stathopoulos, C. O. Paschereit, “Aerodynamic investigation of guide vane configurations downstream a rotating detonation combustor”, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2021, 143(6): 061011.

▪ M. Asli, P. Stathopoulos, C. O. Paschereit, “Effect of Blade Setting Angle on Damping Role of Turbine Guide Vanes Downstream an RDC” in International Gas Turbine Society (IGTC2019) Tokyo, Japan, 2019.

▪ M. Asli, A. M. Tousi, “Performance analysis of axial flow compressor and part load consideration in a gas turbine application”, Journal of Thermal Science & Technology, Vol. 8 No.3, pp. 476-487.

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* Rahin Raju, HiWi, assisting with the research activities (2025-26).  

* Shahbaz Anis Sholapure, M.Sc. thesis "Numerical analysis of a rotary wave engine", (from TU Berlin, 2024)

* Mosaab Mhgoub,  M.Sc. thesis "Turbine optimization for H2 driven rotating detonation combustion," (from TU Berlin, 2024).

* Dongsuk Kim, M.Sc. thesis "On the potentials of pressure gain combustion engines in hybrid electric propulsion aviation," (from TU Berlin, 2023).

* Hussein Nassar, M.Sc. thesis, "On the damping role of a bumpy leading-edge turbine guide vane downstream a rotating detonation combustor," (from TU Berlin). 

* Mahdi Shabani, M.Sc. thesis, "Numerical study of a plenum in a PDC-turbine configuration," (from TU Berlin,2022-2023).

*Jeffrey Hänsel, Student project, "Assessing the Battery Cooling Technologies for Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Aircraft" (2023).

* Harikrishnan Radhakrishnam, HiWi, assisting with the teaching activities (2024).  

* Mahmoud Nazirizad, HiWi, assisting with the teaching activities (2024).  

* Krishna Rana, HiWi, assisting with the teaching activities (2023).  

* Siddharth Patkar, Intern, "Effect of leading-edge protuberances on a transonic axial compressor performance" (2022).